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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence A. CunninghamPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.595kg ISBN: 9780231170048ISBN 10: 0231170041 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 21 October 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsLawrence Cunningham is a writer and scholar who is well known to the Berkshire Hathaway faithful, and was Warren Buffett's pick for cataloging and organizing Berkshire's famous annual reports. Now Cunningham has taken us in a new direction, directly into the purchases of companies made by Warren Buffett. It is an insightful and important book that deserves a place on every serious investor's book shelf. -- Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way How did Warren Buffett build such a great firm? To unravel this mystery, Lawrence Cunningham takes a deep dive inside the cultures of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries, highlighting the value of integrity, kinship, and autonomy--and revealing how building moats around the castles may help the firm outlast its visionary founder. -- Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of Give and Take Berkshire's trajectory has been so seamless that Warren's professional transition has gone almost unnoticed. The man who began business life as a precocious stock picker has morphed into chief executive of one of the largest collections of businesses in the world. Larry's book astutely chronicles this development. -- From the Foreword, by Tom Murphy, former CEO, ABC, Inc. Lawrence Cunningham is a writer and scholar who is well known to the Berkshire Hathaway faithful, and was Warren Buffett's pick for cataloging and organizing Berkshire's famous annual reports. Now Cunningham has taken us in a new direction, directly into the purchases of companies made by Warren Buffett. It is an insightful and important book that deserves a place on every serious investor's book shelf. -- Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way How did Warren Buffett build such a great firm? To unravel this mystery, Lawrence Cunningham takes a deep dive inside the cultures of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries, highlighting the value of integrity, kinship, and autonomy -- and revealing how building moats around the castles may help the firm outlast its visionary founder. -- Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of Give and Take Lawrence Cunningham is a writer and scholar who is well known to the Berkshire Hathaway faithful, and was Warren Buffett's pick for cataloging and organizing Berkshire's famous annual reports. Now Cunningham has taken us in a new direction, directly into the purchases of companies made by Warren Buffett. It is an insightful and important book that deserves a place on every serious investor's book shelf. -- Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way Author InformationLawrence A. Cunningham, editor and publisher since 1997 of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, is the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor at George Washington University. Cunningham's dozen books include The AIG Story (with Maurice R. Greenberg) and How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett. His extensive writings on a wide range of business and legal topics appear in leading university journals as well as in such periodicals as the Baltimore Sun, the Financial Times, the New York Post, and the New York Times. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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